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Events Quotes


"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."


"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."


"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."


"The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events."


"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."


"Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written."


"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."


"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."


"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."


"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."


"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."


"If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them."


"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."


"The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation."


"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."



"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."



"I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham."


"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."


"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."


"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."


"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."


"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."


"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."


"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."


"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."


"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."


"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players."


"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."


"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."


"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."


"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."
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